The " Argument" of Song of Myself
I. Phase 1---5 : The initial insight into the creative nature ("the procreant urge") of the self and initiating of creative power which follows spontaneously upon that insight.
II. 6---16: Recognition of the relation of the self to its world and a seeking after the metamorphosis which follow spontaneously upon that recognition.
III. 17---25: The role of the self in and through its world. The poet is not simply a force, but a force defined in terms of its world, now he is fully a person and can name himself: " Walt Whitman, a Kosmos of Manhattan the son"
IV. The poet is fully at home, in his newly defined world, fully sure of himself and his " procreant urge"...." I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am encloser of things to be".